Plugging In to Socialtext 3.0

Because of my role working with Socialtext’s partners, for me, the most exciting thing about this week’s introduction of Socialtext 3.0 is the opportunity to quickly expand our partner ecosystem.

The Socialtext 3.0 platform enables our customers to choose from the over 100,000 widgets that have been developed based on the Google OpenSocial Gadget standard. Many of these widgets provide popular extensions that are great complements to the collaboration capabilities inherent in our platform. And, we are working with a number of new developers to create additional widgets to add to this portfolio and make available to our SMB and enterprise customers.

This activity around new Google OpenSocial development is in addition to the work being done on Socialtext connectors to other enterprise systems. The new Socialtext People profile combines the information available in a company’s LDAP or Microsoft Active Directory system with the business social networking features available with 3.0. Socialtext is also working with its developers and partners to add to the capabilities of our connectors that integrate Socialtext 3.0 with IBM’s Lotus Connections and SocialPoint which enables integration with Microsoft SharePoint. We are working with our customers and partners to prioritize additional system integration opportunities for Socialtext 3.0, so stay tuned!

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